Welcome to the new Shondaland! Shonda Rhimes and Netflix are finally giving details about the first eight(!) series fans can expect from the new team-up!
Last month, it was reported that one of Shonda Rhimes’ new projects on Netflix will be about con artist Anna Delvey. Now that project has been confirmed by Netflix, along with seven other series!
Speaking about the move to Netflix, Shonda Rhimes stated, “I wanted the new Shondaland to be a place where we expand the types of stories we tell, where my fellow talented creatives could thrive and make their best work and where we as a team come to the office each day filled with excitement.”
“Ted and Cindy and everyone at Netflix have been incredible partners in making that happen. This is Shondaland 2.0,” said Rhimes.
Get a run down of all the new series below:
Untitled Shonda Rhimes Project
“Based on the New York Magazine article How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People by Jessica Pressler. Manhattan makes a new friend like no other. But is she the stuff American dreams are made of or is she New York’s biggest con woman? Is it a con if you enjoy being taken?”
Shonda Rhimes will create the series and serve as executive producer.
Untitled Bridgerton Project
“Based on Julia Quinn’s best-selling series of novels, this smart feminist take on Regency England romance unveils the glittering, wealthy, sexual, painful, funny and sometimes lonely lives of the women and men in London’s high society marriage mart as told through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family.”
Scandal veteran Chris Van Dusen will executive produce, adapt, and showrun the series.
‘The Warmth of Other Suns’
“Based on Pulitzer-Prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson’s award-winning book of the same name, this powerful groundbreaking series tracks the decades-long migration of African-Americans fleeing the Jim Crow South in search of a better life in the North and the West between 1916 and 1970.”
Anna Deavere Smith is set to adapt and serve as executive producer on the series.
‘Pick & Sepulveda’
“Set in the 1840s against the surreal and sensual backdrop of the then-Mexican state of California, the series tracks the end of an idyllic era there as American forces threaten brutality and war at the border to claim this breathtaking land for its own.”
Janet Leahy will executive produce and create the series.
‘Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change’
“Netflix and Shondaland have acquired the rights to Ellen Pao’s groundbreaking memoir detailing her life and career, including the lawsuit she brought against her former employer that sparked intense media scrutiny, shook Silicon Valley to its boys’ club core and presaged the Time’s Up movement.”
‘The Residence’
“Netflix and Shondaland have acquired the rights to Kate Andersen Brower’s brilliant nonfiction book The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House, which offers a vividly accurate insider’s account of White House residence staffers and the upstairs/downstairs lives they share with the First Families at one of the most famous homes in history.”
‘Sunshine Scouts’
“In this darkly comedic half-hour series, an apocalyptic disaster spares a rag-tag group of teenage girls at sleepaway camp who must then summon their moxie and survival skills to weather the fallout and ensure all that remains of humanity abides by the Sunshine Scout Law.”
Jill Alexander will create and co-executive produce the series.
‘Hot Chocolate Nutcracker’
“This documentary offers a behind-the-scenes look at the Debbie Allen Dance Academy’s award-winning reimagining of the classic ballet, The Nutcracker. This staged contemporization – with its inclusive cast of all ages and its blend of dance traditions – has further cemented Debbie Allen’s legacy as one of the greatest forces for good in dance.”
Oliver Bokelberg will serve as director, cinematographer and producer.
No details yet about when the series will begin production or be released. But Shonda Rhimes and Netflix have certainly given fans enough to be excited about in the meantime!
Meanwhile, the existing Shondaland series on ABC will continue to run as normal when they return in the fall.